Outside A Dog

So, yeah, it’s been a while. After not reading much of anything for a month and a half, I’ve thrown myself at my stack of books — I just haven’t been so great with the reviewing. I’m hoping to commit to a review every other day in order to catch up. Here’s [...]

I’ve always been a sucker for a great time travel yarn.  I recently finished up two such tales.  The first is The Accidental Time Machine by Joe Haldeman.  Booklist says:
“Lowly MIT research assistant Matt Fuller toils away in a physics lab until one day he makes an odd discovery. A sensitive quantum calibrator keeps [...]

Still catching up: the first book I read in March is Lacing Up For Murder by Irene Radford. It’s always a good sign when I get so lost in a book that I look up halfway through and wonder where the time has gone!
Glenna is the manager of the Whispering River Lodge in Oregon — [...]

Last book for February, hooray! The Well of Lost Plots by Jasper Fforde is the third in the series of novels about Thursday Next, a literary detective in an alternate version of 1985. After battling the evil Goliath Corporation in her version of England, she learns that she has a special ability to enter [...]

I’m a dog person, so it’s really no surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed Walking In Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe. I was admittedly surprised by how well the premise – a woman who has been dumped by her boyfriend is suddenly able to understand what her dog is thinking – worked out.
After Dawn’s [...]